From Languages to Geographies: Towards Evaluating Cultural Bias in Hate Speech Datasets
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| author | Tonneau, Manuel Liu, Diyi Fraiberger, Samuel Schroeder, Ralph Hale, Scott A. Röttger, Paul |
| author_facet | Tonneau, Manuel Liu, Diyi Fraiberger, Samuel Schroeder, Ralph Hale, Scott A. Röttger, Paul |
| contents | Perceptions of hate can vary greatly across cultural contexts. Hate speech (HS) datasets, however, have traditionally been developed by language. This hides potential cultural biases, as one language may be spoken in different countries home to different cultures. In this work, we evaluate cultural bias in HS datasets by leveraging two interrelated cultural proxies: language and geography. We conduct a systematic survey of HS datasets in eight languages and confirm past findings on their English-language bias, but also show that this bias has been steadily decreasing in the past few years. For three geographically-widespread languages -- English, Arabic and Spanish -- we then leverage geographical metadata from tweets to approximate geo-cultural contexts by pairing language and country information. We find that HS datasets for these languages exhibit a strong geo-cultural bias, largely overrepresenting a handful of countries (e.g., US and UK for English) relative to their prominence in both the broader social media population and the general population speaking these languages. Based on these findings, we formulate recommendations for the creation of future HS datasets. |
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| spellingShingle | From Languages to Geographies: Towards Evaluating Cultural Bias in Hate Speech Datasets Tonneau, Manuel Liu, Diyi Fraiberger, Samuel Schroeder, Ralph Hale, Scott A. Röttger, Paul Computation and Language Perceptions of hate can vary greatly across cultural contexts. Hate speech (HS) datasets, however, have traditionally been developed by language. This hides potential cultural biases, as one language may be spoken in different countries home to different cultures. In this work, we evaluate cultural bias in HS datasets by leveraging two interrelated cultural proxies: language and geography. We conduct a systematic survey of HS datasets in eight languages and confirm past findings on their English-language bias, but also show that this bias has been steadily decreasing in the past few years. For three geographically-widespread languages -- English, Arabic and Spanish -- we then leverage geographical metadata from tweets to approximate geo-cultural contexts by pairing language and country information. We find that HS datasets for these languages exhibit a strong geo-cultural bias, largely overrepresenting a handful of countries (e.g., US and UK for English) relative to their prominence in both the broader social media population and the general population speaking these languages. Based on these findings, we formulate recommendations for the creation of future HS datasets. |
| title | From Languages to Geographies: Towards Evaluating Cultural Bias in Hate Speech Datasets |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17874 |